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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
11
A narrator recalls a mysterious woman known as Mary of the Fields who befriended locals and fed children. After a confrontation with Judge Manton, he dies by his own hand. An attorney’s note links his fate to a moral verse about meting out what one gives, echoed by the woman and birds.
A Boston Post notice asks parents or guardians to identify a West End photo taken near the State House at 1 20 p m yesterday. A five dollar gold piece will be awarded to the child if the original is shown to the City Editor between 3 and 5 p m and properly identified within five days of publication. Another school child photograph will run tomorrow.
In this quip from 1909 Walt Mason jokes about modern rapid schooling with pills and mail order tutors. He mocks dismissing schools and teachers as obsolete while praising a three week pill method for finishing scholars, satirizing the era's tech and pedagogy.
Bishop H W Warren will preach at Highlands M E Church Dorchester for its 40th anniversary next Sunday. Nellie B Williams leaves West Somerville for St Paul Minnesota to serve as missionary and assistant pastor at Woodland Park Baptist Church under Rev William A Hill. Massachusetts Federation of Churches holds annual meeting at Brookline Baptist Church next Tuesday. New England Church Temperance Society meets at St Pauls Church Sunday with speakers Bishop Lawrence Rev R H Howe D D Rev F I Paradise and Rev John W Suter.
Major Albert L. Wyman, a leading officer in the Massachusetts State militia, was attached for $10,000 yesterday by Miss Elizabeth V. Sullivan, a Gray Street South End nurse. Her attorney W. R. Scharton said formal allegations would be filed in a few days.
Miss Sullivan recalls meeting Major Wyman in 1908 and growing friendly before a cooling quarrel. Weeks ago she faced a trespass complaint by Wyman, pleaded not guilty, and the case was filed. Wyman, a drug store proprietor at 79 Berkeley street and Hoffman House resident, denies intimacy and calls the suit outrageous. He warns the woman threatened legal trouble and cites his role with General Pew of the Second Brigade M V M.
Cut cold chicken into quarter inch dice using breast and thigh fillets. Marinate a pint with French dressing then chill. At serving time mix in diced celery and mayonnaise, serve on torn lettuce with cress or gherkins or olives, top with mayonnaise and celery tips. Mrs Samuel Armstrong Worcester.
Soak the pink beans overnight and boil ten minutes in the morning. Drain, cover with fresh water, fry salt pork and onion, brown onion, add tomatoes, then mix with beans and red pepper. Cook in bean pot until beans are tender. Norwood resident Mrs Mary G Bunnberry.
A premier extant Japanese wooden god, a Cupid with six arms, draws attention at the Museum of Fine Arts. Unlike the Greek archer, this figure carries a lotus bud, a thunderbolt and a bell. The museum offers free admission until Monday morning, then 2 cents on non holidays.
A new altar piece at the Anglican Church of SS Augustine and Martin on Lenox Street was dedicated at 10 20 yesterday morning. The mass featured Father Charles N Field as celebrant with deacon Father Frederick C Powell sub deacon Father Albert E Tavoy and master of ceremonies Father Frank Fitts. Rev William H Van Allen gave the dedicatory sermon. The central painting shows the Blessed Virgin and child with Saints Martin and Augustine on either side. The work is by Arthur Pope of Harvard.
Edgar O. Silver a leading publisher and trustee of Brown University and the American Baptist Home Missionary Society died suddenly of pneumonia at his East Orange home. He led Silver, Burdett & Co. and had lived in Newton Massachusetts before moving to New York and East Orange. He leaves a widow and seven children. Funeral set for Saturday at 11 a m in East Orange with interment in Derby Vermont.
Aid from the Shaker colony at Canter bury with help from Concord likely saved Loudon Village from major fire damage. Three dwellings burned and most other houses threatened by sparks in a strong gale. Elders and men fought flames with pails and buckets. loss not to exceed 4000 dollars.
Andrew Carnegie stated he has no desire to fly and will not attempt aviation until he has wings. He announced plans to sail to Norfolk to join President Taft on the Mayflower for a trip to Hampton, Virginia.
Harvard graduate and bull fighter Harper B. Lee, once reported dead in Mexico, is alive and recovering from injuries. Dr. Horacio Azeta of Mexico delivered the update in New York, noting Lee was hurt while trying to divert a bull from a fallen picador and exited the ring at San Luis Polo club.
Despite no anesthetic, Dr. Jose Santos Gomez performed an immediate operation on Lee. After the procedure, Dr. Uzeta transported the injured matador to the sanitarium. Lee requested denial of reports of his death upon learning Dr. Uzeta was en route to New York City.
The Eleazer W. Clark a 849 ton four masted schooner carrying asphalt paving blocks was determined to be wrecked at Frying Pan shoals. Captain F Wyman and seven crew escaped in two yawl boats reaching Bald Head Island after a long sea struggle. They received care at the Seamen's Home reporting extreme hunger and sleep deprivation. The vessel owned by J S Winslow of Portland Maine was built in Bath in 1891.
Andrew Klein and Joseph Boits, Albany merchants, bought an old trunk for 2.75 at a City Hall auction of effects from murders and accidents. The trunk contained 50 bonds of a French traction line believed worth 95 each with accrued interest since 1908. The sale was conducted openly by County Treasurer Wheelock.
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